Zuko took aang back to the royal palace. After he had deposited aang in the infirmiry he had contacted hacota, gataria's and saka's father. He had arrivied some hours later. Hacota had kept amazingly calm zuko noted. he himself was not getting any rest. every spare moment he spent at aangs bedside. Aang had gotten steadily worse, he had devoloped an awful fever and he thrashed around every so often breaking out in cold sweat. most alarming of all was that the glowing refused to go away. It all made zuko wonder what could have done this to him.
"I'm here! I'm here!" a frantic cry came from the open doors. Suki and the rest of the kioshi warriors had apperd. Suki ran over to the bed aang occupied. "I've just heard about the disapperences." she added tear tracks running down her face. She sank into one of the many chairs surrounding the bed. Suki gazed at aang for a moment then asked, " what's exactly wrong with him?" the healer standing behind zuko's head tsked sadly. "He isn't externally injured it must all be internally," she said quietly "i've never really seen anything quite like it." everyone sat in silence after that watching aang toss and turn in his bed.
Visitors came none stop after that. First bato of the water tribe, and then zuko's uncle stopped by, then mei (she and zuko disapperd together in a broom closet for nearly fifteen minutes) and even king bumi cme by for once without a smile on his face. Now as late afternoon dawnedfirelord zuko was once again alone with aang. it had been a month since aang had deafted firelord ozai and now trouble had arose once again. Poor aang, zuko thought. He's kind of like a trouble magnet. Snow started to fall outside the window making light shadows pass across the beds that lined the infirmiry. zuko watched it his mind drifting to his missing friends. Gataria had started going out with aang. zuko rememberd suddenly. This must be really hard on aang even if he's not awake. Saka had gone with hacota on a trip to the southren water tribe for a few days and had just returned when he had been taken. touph has had multipule visits from her parents who had seen how happy she was and had bought a house a few miles away, and momo had just been momo. zuko grinned in spite of himself at the memory of momo stuffing his face with what he thought had been food and what had really been jackel rabbit pellets. Everyone had laughed as saka had volunteered to personally wash his mouth having done the same thing before. Aang stirred brining zuko out of his thoughts. Aang's tattao's glowed brighter for a moment and he tossed and turned more violently. "aang?-" "noooo,no,NO!" aang sat bolt upright and his eyes flew open. He looked around confused as zuko stood up pushing back his chair. Aang jumpedout of bed then hunched over clutching his side. "whoa there aang, your hurt." zuko said gesguring to the bed, but aang looked around again and grabbed his staff. "I have to save them." he mutterd limping towards the open balcony doors. However zuko side stepped in front of him. "Your not going anywhere aang! you are seriously hurt."aang looked straight at him his eyes full of pain. "i need to save them it's my fault! please let me go." He pleaded still clutching his side. " first of all you need to tell me what happend and second your not gonig alone. come sit."zuko replied taking aang by the shoulder and leading him back to the bed.